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Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter Tshe (Tje)
Phonetic usage:	/t͡ɕ/ ⓘ
The Cyrillic script
Slavic letters
АА́А̀А̂А̄ӒБВГҐДЂЃЕЕ́ЀЕ̂Е̄ЁЄЖЗЗ́ЅИІЇꙆИ́ЍИ̂ӢЙЈКЛЉМНЊОО́О̀О̂ŌӦПРСС́ТЋЌУУ́У̀У̂ӮЎӰФХЦЧЏШЩꙎЪЪ̀ЫЫ́ЬѢЭЭ́ЮЮ́Ю̀ЯЯ́Я̀
Non-Slavic letters
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Archaic or unused letters
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Handwritten cursive forms of Tshe

Tshe (or Tje) (Ћ ћ; italics: Ћ ћ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, used only in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "chew"; however, it must not be confused with the voiceless retroflex affricate Che (Ч ч), which represents /ʈ͡ʂ/ and which also exists in Serbian Cyrillic script. The sound of Tshe is produced from the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ by iotation. Tshe is the 23rd letter in the Serbian alphabet. It was first used by Dositej Obradović as a revival of the old Cyrillic letter Djerv (Ꙉ), and was later adopted in the 1818 Serbian dictionary of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.[1][2] The equivalent character to Tshe in Gaj's Latin alphabet is Ć.[3]

Despite being a Cyrillic letter, Tshe was also used in Latin-based Slovincian phonetic transcriptions with the same value as in Serbian.[_citation needed_]

Being part of the most common Serbian last names, the transliteration of Tshe to the Latin alphabet is very important; however, there are many ways to transliterate it. It is typically transliterated as ⟨ć⟩, as per the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet or, without the diacritic, as ⟨c⟩; less frequent transliterations are ⟨tj⟩, ⟨tsh⟩, ⟨ty⟩, ⟨cj⟩, ⟨cy⟩, ⟨ch⟩ (also used for Che), and ⟨tch⟩, ⟨ts⟩ (the last one in Hungarian only, but ⟨cs⟩ and ⟨ty⟩ are more common). It looks similar to the Shha (Һ һ) but stroked.

As it is one of the letters unique to the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, and also the first letter of the Serbian word for Cyrillic (ћирилица), Tshe is often used as the basis for logos for various groups involved with the Cyrillic alphabet.[_citation needed_]

The capital Tshe has seen uses in the English language as a symbol for the definite article _The_—similarly to the Ampersand & At sign—due to it appearing as a ligature of the Latin script letters uppercase T & _lowercase H_—which are the first 2 letters of the English word The. However, unlike common symbols such as the ampersand & at sign, the use of the capital Tshe as a symbol in English is not widely known or recognized, and uppercase thorn (Þ) is often used instead.[4]

• Т т : Cyrillic letter Te
• Ч ч : Cyrillic letter Che
• Ђ ђ : Cyrillic letter Dje
• Һ һ : Cyrillic letter Shha
• Ќ, ќ : Cyrillic letter Kje
• Ć ć : Latin letter C with acute
• Ħ ħ : Latin letter H with stroke

Character information

1. ^ Maretić, Tomislav (1899). Gramatika i stilistika hrvatskoga ili srpskoga književnog jezika.
2. ^ Campbell, George L.; Moseley, Christopher (2013). The Routledge Handbook of Scripts and Alphabets (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1135222963.
3. ^ Duško Vitas; et al. (2012). The Serbian Language in the Digital Age. Springer. p. 53. ISBN 978-3642307553.
4. ^ Greenawalt, Tyler (2013-07-14). "Why A Symbol For 'The' Probably Won't Take Off". NPR. Retrieved 2023-05-22.